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claire rousay

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My 2021 Playback (by Soundcloud)

Demolition of the Siemens Nixdorf Building, Vienna 2021 – Alienated Field Recording

Keep’em In The Dark

Photo by fabulous Billy&Hells
https://www.billyandhells.com/

the love of beauty

"Everybody's got a different idea o' why they call the place Mer Rouge--you know, "Red Sea" in French--when they ain't even any ocean around. Hell, we 200 miles from the Gulf!

"The one that's right, I think, is the story 'bout folks livin' up on Red Hill, lookin' down on the flat Delta, all covered in red clover in the Spring...that sounds like a Red Sea, don't it?" (Uncle Hassell, taped interview, May, 1989)

For this piece, Hassell used tape loops ("some of 'em was so worn out, you couldn't tell what it was") and synthesizers to evoke the sight of Prairie Mer Rouge in the early days of settlement, as a warm breeze created waves on a sea of red clover.

Prairie Mer Rouge

Virtual Instruo filter with cutoff and resonance modulated at audio rates

Feedback Drone Forward

photo by wonderful Elseh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

No Escape For You

『幻』
作詞・作曲 / Papyrusたくや

【Music Video】
https://youtu.be/K8N2TRIIemM

おれの心は狂ってる
誰かおれにスイッチを
電源切り替えスイッチを
電源オンオフスイッチを

そんな事言ってもさ 弱い弱いおれだから
ニワトリ 出荷 かくれんぼ
飼育員から逃げ切れよ

嘘みたいな本当みたいな幻を
おれに あんたに くれないか
澄んだ川 宇宙と未来 飛び込み自殺
そんならとっくに死んでいるおれだから

仲間を作ろう
きれいなゲロ溜まり

そんな事言ってもさ 弱い弱いおれだから
ニワトリ 出荷 かくれんぼ
飼育員から逃げ切れよ

嘘みたいな本当みたいな幻を
おれに あんたに くれないか
澄んだ川 宇宙と未来 飛び込み自殺
そんならとっくに死んでいるおれだから

仲間を作ろう
きれいなゲロ溜まり

https://hkcr.live/shows/claire-rousay-11-08-2021

claire rousay - 11/08/2021

https://www.nts.live/shows/claire-rousay/episodes/claire-rousay-30th-august-2021

San Antonio producer & sound artist Claire Rousay journeys through healing plaintive electronics, quotidian field recordings & minimalist compositions...

Mended Dreams w/ Claire Rousay - 300821

Heavy Texture is a new immersive listening and environmental sound project. The aim is to snatch experimental music back from the universities and conservatoires over a mixture of radio broadcasts, online discussions groups, events and sound walks; to deinstitutionalize “experimental” music in a way that’s accessible both financially and in approach.

The idea, the experiment, the playground, is to explore what listening is and what it means in the context of sound and presenting sound art. 

Heavy Texture launches with a three hour broadcast, featuring a mix from Lupini and original material from Dialect and Claire Rousay - all explore environmental listening, electroacoustic improvisation and sound collage⁣.

We’d encourage you to take parts of this hour, as much as is allowable in your day, to practice listening rather than hearing. To turn the sound over and explore it. It’s very slow, it’s sometimes frustrating, and you might find afterwards that you’ve become very fond of the sound of your washing machine or the seagulls or the traffic or whatever other bits of audio are colouring your experience of this broadcast.

Claire Rousay presents a musing on listening and environments, With a lived-in feeling akin to your favourite t-shirt, Claire's work is gentle, warm and enveloping. With a slew of unstoppable releases over the last few years, she's been honing a sound that sits between collage, emo-ambient and a new musique concrete.

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In addition to the tracklist below, there are sounds of Claire Rousay working at her computer, singing, and drinking wine.

Ora Clementi - Peach of Immortality
Ora Clementi - Dialogue Between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain
Ora Clementi - Vulning
Ora Clementi - Nowhere Much Narrower
Ora Clementi - Magic Mountain
Ora Clementi - Forest of Materials
Chie Otomi - Suzu
Chie Otomi - Fizzy Spore
Chie Otomi - Cardamom
Luc Ferrari - Photophonie
Claire Rousay - Ending 1

claire rousay - heavytexture 03 - august 2021

Oh heck do I love the old Brüel & Kjaer lab gear...  a type 1405 Noise Generator feeding Pink Noise into two hand cranked 1621 swept bandpass filters.  The recording was made with two overdubs - one with the filters set to a 23% slope and one to 3% slope.   Each filter was hard panned resulting in pure analog generated eeriness!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2021.

Brüel & Kjaer: Twin 1621 Winds... (SFX With Lab Gear)

Ambience India, From Ext Platform in between Wagons, Train Start, Acceleration, whells Squicks, Train Horns and Tracks Impacts (2007)
MS-Shure VP88 

Recorded by Mélanie Gauthier
Masterised by Claude Langlois
© soundchick sfx
ID# MG010 25 

Train to nowhere

Donations at the Wat Pho Temple of Reclining Buddha
Bangkok / Thailand / 2000
Recorded by Mélanie Gauthier
© soundchick sfx

Fortune Buddha

Snow Geese up north for Christmas - Fall 2016
Recorded by Mélanie Gauthier
© SOUNDCHICK SFX

Snow Geese up north for Christmas

Ice Storm -  Freezing rain falling from trees on Gauthier Street in Montreal on the evening of January 23, 2018.
ID# SC T06 Icestorm (temp)
Recorded by Mélanie Gauthier - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2018)
© SOUNDCHICK SFX

Freezing rain falling from trees

Modérément animé.
Ecrit par Claude Debussy pour piano. 9ème prélude du livre I
Orchestré et enregistré par mes soins.
L’inspiration espagnole de cette pièce étant évidente, j’ai préféré ignorer, pour cette orchestration, la guitare et les cordes pincées. M’inspirant de Béla Bartók, j’ai choisi un ensemble de cordes jouant presque exclusivement spiccato, un cor et une trompette ainsi que quelques percussions : grosse caisse, cymbale cloutée et caisse claire.

La sérénade interrompue (Claude Debussy - Orch. Francis Gorgé)

Warping time using FM encoded tape... here two intertwining arpeggiated patches from my Blue Zone Kontakt library were recorded at 240bpm using only keys from the top two octaves onto two (out of 7) tracks of a TEAC MR-30 Laboratory Analog Data Recorder at 38cm/sec.  The FM encoded audio was then played back at 9.5cm/sec thus restoring the pitch but time stretching everything around it including reverb, delays and modulation effects.  The result is quite magical – not least because the tape machine itself adds a load of mojo in terms of smearing/limiting/filtering/noise resulting in a sort of crusty sonic Sepia effect.

No additional reverb has been added - its mearly the original reverb and delay tails ending up 4 times longer due to the tape speed reduction.

The MR-30 was originally intended as an Instrumentation Recorder to capture mainly slow DC signals (yes, it will record CV in parallel with audio!) and vibrations from transducers in laboratory experiments but it turns out the unit is capable of recording 7 tracks of audio concurrently well into the audio range (about 10KHz)and can playback and record at 6 different speeds from 1.2 to 38cm/sec.  In max speed a C90 lasts less than 10 minutes!

Here is the recording... warts and all.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2020.

1983 TEAC MR-30 Slo-Mo: Molécules d'eau (Lo-Fi FM Encoded Tape Experiment)

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release date August 29 2020

009 - claire rousay - Library (excerpt, from Both)

TB-303 Test Run...
Sent through Hughes & Kettner "Metal Master" Tube Distortion.
A Million Times heard, but it still rocks ;-)

TB-303 Test Run

claire rousay - the ribbon on your throat

A mysterious recording found on a reel of steel recording wire on a Bakelite spool that was bundled with a WWII 1942 Armour Research Foundation (ARF) Model 50 wire recorder (originally built for the US Airforce) I purchased several years ago.

I don't know why but it just seemed right and I felt compelled to preserve this vintage slice of life on amateur radio from yesteryear.  My guess is that the recorder was purchased, like so much ex postwar kit, from a surplus store by a radio ham who used it to capture long distance two-way SSB "DX" radio conversations he'd managed to setup and work.

I love the aesthetics of analog SSB SW radio - it is as alien as it is as human with all its bizarre pitch shifting and phasing artifacts - a truly analog phenomenon!

Unlike the flight recording I discovered on another wire reel, some research into this one ultimately turned out to be very fruitful thanks to the community spirit and great record taking of countless DX radio hams around the world over the decades.

The recording itself was probably from the early 1950s and the recording was clearly made from the UK side of an historical shortwave DX radio conversation between an operator in Stockholm and a radio ham in the UK.

SM5RM aka Olof Fridman was an extremely enthusiastic and well equipped radio ham from Stockholm. In this recording he is talking to a friend G2JZ aka Jack Rushton from the Midlands in the UK telling him a story about an old friend and a strange coincidence....

Here is the text of SM5RM's original QSL card:

"SM5RM of Stockholm can give linguistically-inclined DXers workouts in fluent English, German,French, Spanish, Italian and three Scandinavian languages. Olof runs 150 watts on several DX bands, is building a 500-watt final amplifier, owns a printing business and has been hamming for 30 years."

Mr Olof Fridman was born on October 29, 1909, but died in late 1971, only 62 years old. He lived in the capital Stockholm where he owned a printing company named "Masterprint". He printed thousands of verification cards from the late 40's to the late 50's.

ARF built around 2000 Model 50 wire recorders for the US military during WWII. A spool of ultra fine wire, 15,000 foot long, could hold 66 minutes of recording on one spool of steel wire.

On the machine is a serial number plate marked USN Bureau of Aeronautics Special Devices Division Contract No.3153. It was built in the early 1940s.

Unfortunately I learned the hard way that when one of these crazy machines suffers a wire spill the resulting tangled carnage literally leads to tears as the wire is so thin untangling it without snapping the wire is near on impossible!

Transfer & Audio Restoration by D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1942 ARF Model 50 Wire Recorder: Vintage Radio Ham DX Recording

“Conspiracy Means Breathing Together” is the first single from “La terre et la force” by Anarchist Mountains Trio. Due on February 15 on tape & vinyl via Amek Collective: http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Anarchist Mountains Trio - Conspiracy Means Breathing Together

This track is part of the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

During the second wave of the pandemic in Poland, in autumn, vocalists Agata Harz and Katarzyna Smoluk recorded improvised tracks based on an ancient Slavic spell, or ‘enchantment’, as they called it, the purpose of which is to call forth spring after a dark, terrifying wintertime. The vocal tracks lie at the heart of Tim Hecker’s composition, commissioned or Unsound's 'Intermission' album, to be released on March 5th, 2021.

Tim Hecker Agata Harz & Katarzyna Smoluk - Demeter & Johannes' Song Of Pandemia

Original Track - https://youtu.be/W4FqSreZi1w
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MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming

Loop Diggers Midnight Challenge Wax 7 Track 2 - S M O O T H _  M  O V E

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009 - claire rousay - Library (excerpt, from Both)

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